Writing in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, researchers from the University of Cambridge and University College in London review the evidence that both attention and prior expectations modulate social perception. They find that for people with schizophrenia diagnoses this influence of prior expectations is atypically strong, while people with autism-spectrum disorders demonstrate abnormally weak top-down modulation of social perception. The authors review some putative functional connectivity in the brain related to these phenomena.
